Archive for the ‘Preston Honea’ tag

Always wondered why fastbacks weren’t more popular as altered-wheelbase early funny cars. Look at all that weight cantilevered over the rear axle – should help tremendously with weight transfer, doncha think?

Then again, you drop a big Hemi in between the front framerails and your weight equation gets thrown all askew.

That’s what Preston Honea did with his Marlin, at least, racing it as the Bill Kraft Rambler – a successor to the Kraft Rambler we mentioned here a few months ago. The Marlin Site has scans of a couple old magazine articles featuring the Hemi Marlin, though I don’t see any dates or magazine titles attached to the articles. According to one of the articles, the combination was worth a 10.31-second run at 138 mph its first time out.

On a tangent, I’ve been keeping an eye out for the few fastback Novas that Chevrolet built for drag racing in the mid-60s. I hear there’s at least one still around and currently under restoration. Any leads, please send them my way.